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Having lived a lot of my life with typewriters the state-of-the-art, having in fact written a novel on a typewriter - I am not so charmed by the idea of anything retro with my keyboards.

If I am understanding correctly, mechanical keyboard was an in-between step? Anyhoo, more of a good riddance situation to all that stuff for me.
 
I remember an Olivetti typewriter that my ex used to help me (attempt to) market my first novel - which, as I alluded to, was originally done on an Underwood typewriter. The Olivetti was electronic and had a small amount of memory so you could set up mail merges 'n shit.

It was straight from Buck Rogers to me.

I am old.
 
I don't still have a typewriter, no. If I did, I would have dispatched it during the Great Chucking of 2013. But I didn't even have one at the start of that.

I had a lot of old computer equipment but the typewriters were obviously sent to typewriter heaven at some prior time.
 
Well I'll be darned. I finally looked up the lyrics to Aqualung. It is a song I have heard my whole life. It was a staple of my party crowd in high school.

It's one of those things where I know parts of what he's saying and the rest - I had just filled in sounds which became nonsensical words.

But now I know exactly what it is.

Well I'll be darned. I didn't know it was that.
 
My fingers are a mess with paper cuts and also splits in the skin due to cold/dryness. Work stuff. It's a fucking annoyance.

I am typing with my middle finger because my main typing finger - the pointy finger - has a bandaid on the tip. That makes it clumsy and leads to many double-hits.

If I just forsook the bandaid and typed with it, it would hurt. It's not just one cardboard cut; I was flossing and the floss wanted to go in the slit too. Shit just compounds. Fucked up.

So you put on a bandaid and that fucks things up too.

Annoyances.
 
Mudcat
My fingers are a mess with paper cuts and also splits in the skin due to cold/dryness. Work stuff. It's a fucking annoyance.

I am typing with my middle finger because my main typing finger - the pointy finger - has a bandaid on the tip. That makes it clumsy and leads to many double-hits.

If I just forsook the bandaid and typed with it, it would hurt. It's not just one cardboard cut; I was flossing and the floss wanted to go in the slit too. Shit just compounds. Fucked up.

So you put on a bandaid and that fucks things up too.

Annoyances.
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Do you use lotion?
 
I smear some lotion on my hands/forearms/love-handles/anywhere-feeling-chafed near bedtime most winter evenings. Doesn't help with cardboard cuts but it gives a stinging sensation in and around the cracking areas which I find perversely pleasant.



No Mudcat novels for gamelive viewing, no.
 
Interesting thing. I have been putting bandaids on a couple fingertips this week and, in looking at the assortment of available bandaids, I have looked at one kind and avoided it. I have been like, "What the fuck is with that bandaid?"

And in fact I have been taking a few different bandaids and often customizing them with scissors, cutting them down and whatnot.

My customizing efforts have not been very successful. Usually I end up with too little adhesive part, and the bandaid doesn't last for long.

Anyway, I am getting low on bandaids and today I looked at one of those funky bandaids and thought, 'Okay, I guess I can maybe trim that into something useful. Can't be any worse than what I've been doing and I'll probably just end up chucking those funky bandaids. Might as well try something.'

But then as I started handling it I suddenly realized - that bandaid is actually perfect for my purposes. It is probably custom made for fingertips.

It's like this:

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Perfect. It has been doing a great job all day. Probably a million and a half time better than any bandaid I have used this week.

Sometimes I am stooped.
 
Thing is, I hardly ever use bandaids. I imagine this box of bandaids in my drawer is the same box I bought when I moved in here (~15 years ago). And it is pretty full. I put up with a lot before I go the bandaid route.

I feel like exposure to air is the best thing for wounds. I live by that philosophy. Unless there is oozing or the idiotic situation I am facing now of pain combined with keep-kinda-reopening-the-slice, I just leave it be.

My box of bandaids here could well be the last I ever own.

Now okay, I have been using some bandaids at work this week so I am contributing to things in that way but still, the bandaid companies would have some serious thinking to do if everyone was like me.


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